A rare, ultra-long earthquake in Myanmar revealed that mature faults can deliver their full force directly to the surface.

For decades, scientists viewed the Tuz Gölü Fault in central Turkey as a straightforward sideways slider, with GPS data ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) presents a never-before-seen image of an oceanic transform fault from ...

The central section of the San Andreas Fault could host larger quakes than previously realized. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

A new twist on the San Andreas fault could shake up southern Californians preparing for the Big One. The southern San Andreas isn’t vertical in most places, as previously thought. Instead, it twists ...

When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, violent shaking. But deep beneath the Earth's surface, some faults move in near silence. These slow, shuffling slips and their accompanying hum -- ...

Stress is a part of life. We all face it, even the Earth- but in a different way, and we all release it- in a different way. When the Earth’s surface builds up stress- it releases with a shake.

A small part of the San Andreas Fault that was thought to quietly slide without shaking its neighbors may actually be capable of strong earthquakes, including magnitude-6 shakers, a new study finds.

Some of the largest and deadliest earthquakes in recent years hit where earthquake hazard estimates didn't predict massive quakes. A detailed computer model of large earthquakes in Japan and Taiwan ...

On July Fourth, the most powerful earthquake to hit Southern California in nearly 20 years struck a remote part of the Mojave Desert. A day later, an even larger temblor rocked the same area. Though ...

On September 19, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked central Mexico, with fatalities estimated in the hundreds—the largest, most serious earthquake of at least 19 that the U.S. Geological Survey ...